The SS and its Soul in Socialism - Gunter Grass and the Waffen SS

Gunter Gross was an obvious Nazi when he was touted by my professors in College in the 60's. He was a bad joke then an still is.

He writes about his membership in the Waffen SS as if it were likened to the Boy Scouts:

"I am sure I am remembering correctly, the Waffen SS was at first not something scary, but rather an elite unit that was always sent to the trouble spots, and which according to rumor, had the most casualties."

This is a reminder that Nazi is merely a contraction for National Socialist Workers Party. They hated the Communists because they were their strongest totalitarian competition cut from the same cloth.
Most of all the Nazis and the Soviet Communist both hated Jews. It was old anti-Semitism that lingered in all of Europe, especially Central and Eastern Europe. m/r

Gunter Grass and the Waffen SS | FrontPage Magazine

By Theodore Feder On April 1, 2014 

On April 7, 2012, Gunter Grass, German novelist and Nobel Laureate, published a poem, titled “What Must Be Said” (“Was gesagt werden muss”) in which he chastised the nuclear power Israel for threatening Iran and endangering world peace. It garnered worldwide attention.

The poem states in part,

Why is it only now I say in old age, with my last drop of ink, that Israel’s nuclear power endangers an already fragile world peace? Because what by tomorrow might be too late, must be spoken now, and because we—as Germans already burdened enough—could become enablers of a crime.

He allowed himself to do this, he says, in spite of being a German and at the risk of being labeled an anti-Semite, which he averred he most assuredly was not. What better proof of his objectivity than that he, a good German of the left, was impelled by his conscience to sound the alarm, regardless of the consequences to him personally, though his poem was met with considerable approval in Germany and elsewhere?

Of course, he could have decried other threats to international harmony, posed for instance, by the nuclear power of North Korea, by the instability in a nuclear-armed Pakistan, by the events in the Sudan, Rwanda, and Somalia, by the regime of Bashar al Assad, by the Taliban, Al Qaeda and the world-wide jihadist movement, or he could have focused on the threats to annihilate Israel that have emanated from Iran itself. There, its past president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was wont to describe Israel as an illegitimate entity “that should be wiped off the map,” as a “germ of corruption that will be wiped off” and as “an insult to all humanity.”

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